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THE FORBIDDEN SONG 



BY 



ROLAND BURNHAM MOLINEUX 



New York : 



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G. W. DILLINGHAM CO., Publishers 



THiF- L.bRAKY OF 
Tv^o Copies Received 

FEB 9 1903 

Ccpy.;ght Entry 
CLASS- OL XXc. No. 
COPY B. I 



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(Copyright 1903 by Roland Burnham Molineux.) 



THE FORBIDDEN SONG. 

Within that silent room 

We, the condemned and hopeless men, 

To ease the endless gloom 

Would sing when evening came— and then, 

Into each heart would spring 

Those words our lips dared not repeat : 

That strain with longing and with love replete 

We did not sing. 

We sang of love and fame. 

Of liberty and all the time, 

A song none dared to name 

Haunted the desperate lips of crime. 

We sang all songs but one. 

You know the one I mean— and yet, 

This song of songs, no prisoner can forget 

Was never sung. 

Determined men were there 

Hardened by time, by sin, by strife : 

Men whose strong hands would dare 

To take the precious gift of life. 

Hushed were their voices strong, 

In all the room was not a throat 

Dared tremblingly to hum the opening note 

Of that old song. 



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